One Year Later

I haven’t had a chance to do much this last year. I was on a rollercoaster of a job that wasn’t a good fit for me or my talents. I hated being in that position–like I was letting people down. But I hated what was happening to me as well.

There are times where it is best to just let go in order to heal. I am still have issues letting go, though, but it will get better. I am sure of it.

I just returned from a wonderful author and publishing conference with a number of things I can do relatively quickly to move my author business along. Such as throw my books up on ElevenReader to get minimal, inexpensive audio books out to my readers. Then I can pivot to some of the great options that now exist to produce professional audio books, releasing those to retailer sites, like Spotify or InAudio.

I am looking at possibly doing translations, but I need a better plan for that. I will probably jump into that arena slower. Not sure which countries to start with, but Germany and France are generally the two big ones.

I won an annual subscription to a tool to help me make slides and schedule them for TikTok, as well as reels for Instagram. So, I will be doing some of that as well, from a marketing standpoint.

The best thing is that I am writing again. I have started the third book for the League of Unusual Shifters series, while I am editing the second book in that series. I am editing the first book of a new series; one which I had done for fun but I am wary of releasing it until I get some other things completed.

And I am still editing that last Rare Wolf book. It is going slower than I expected, and I came up with 2 more series I could write in that same world (Isn’t that the way?).

But there are so many stories in my head that I have told myself I couldn’t write yet. The hope is now that I will have time to get some of them on paper. And out into the world.

KJ